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That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on a serious scale—bribery, coercion, sabotage, organized rebellion—all directed at stopping the worst behavior of the world’s most seriously corrupt kings.

Kristin Cashore

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Friends
Kings
Corrupt
Two
Behavior
Stopping
World
Band
Directed
Along
Rebellion
Serious
Scale
Bribery
Trouble
Scales
Stirred
Worst
Organized
Sabotage
Small
Seriously
Coercion

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